Geesh haven’t updated this blog in a while. I’ll do this mini update at least..

Took a new job at opencandy (some really cool stuff in the pipeline there!), still pushing out DJ mixes here and there over at my soundcloud page (caustik’s sound cloud). Create a soundcloud account if you haven’t got one already and make sure to add me =)

Every once in a while I’ve been working a bit on this app that lets you create sprites that can walk around your desktop and interact with your windows and each other. Here’s a little screenshot. It’d be cool to talk with some of the guys who run sprite repository web sites and get a bunch of characters created =)

Here’s the latest build. Just drag and drop an .spr file or any image file on the executable and it should drop on your desktop. You can drag and throw them around, and you can click the sprite/image and press left/right/up/down/space to move it around. It’s fairly basic right now, but the plan is to make them able to walk around by themselves and interact more, etc.

Hm, actually this happens for every window (not sure why I only noticed it when throwing it on the taskbar). Anyway, when the launch angle is somewhere around 45-90 degrees it follows a normal trajectory in the air. When it hits the ground, it bounces again but it barely moves forward. When the launch angle is less than 45 is sort of glides along the ground and looks more natural.